MET GALA 2018 saw stars such as Miley Cyrus dressed to the nines to impress some of the fashion world’s most elite designers, but the former Disney star almost flashed more than she bargained for on the red carpet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibition creator Andrew Bolton said the exhibit would “raise deeper — and even more provocative — contemplations about the role dress plays within the Roman Catholic Church and the role the Roman Catholic Church plays within the fashionable imagination”.

At the Anna Wintour Costume Center gallery ecclesiastical masterworks such as papal vestments and accessories such as rings and tiaras will be shown.

In a statement, Andrew said: “Fashion and religion have long been intertwined, mutually inspiring and informing one another.

“Although this relationship has been complex and sometimes contested, it has produced some of the most inventive and innovative creations in the history of fashion.”